Halley’s comet to shower its flashy lights this Wednesday-Thursday

Here comes the day the sky watchers and sky gazers await eagerly: The Halley’s comet with all its flashes and one of the world’s most incredible meteor showers.

People in the Southern Hemisphere will have the best of the show while those in the Northern Hemisphere may get a lesser show in the early mornings. However for all, the best time to see the shower is between 3 am and 5 am your local time.

Tips on how to view the best of the show: NASA suggests finding an area well away from city or street lights, prepared with a sleeping bag, blanket or chair to view the Eta Aquarids,.

Read details at Daily Mail

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World watches Full Red Supermoon eclipse on 28 September while Pakistan will witness Penumbral lunar eclipse

On 28th September, most of the world would witness a full moon bathed in red as total lunar will occur - or what is called the Supermoon. It will be visible in North and South America, Africa and western Asia.

The eclipse will last 1 hour and 11 minutes and begins at 8:11pm ET (1.11am BST) and will also be seen in eastern Pacific Ocean region and Europe.

However, in Pakistan the total eclipse will not be visible - rather it will be the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. A penumbral lunar eclipse takes place when the Moon moves through the faint, outer part of the Earth's shadow. This type of eclipse is often mistaken for a normal full Moon.

The penumbral lunar eclipse will start to set in at 5:11:47 on 28 September at 265degreess from the North and will have its full eclipse around 5:44:30 at 270 degrees - just about 11 minutes before the moonset.

By full Penumbral eclipse we mean almost half of the moon having a slight shadow before its sets - while the eclipse will continue below the horizon and attain actual Penumbral eclipse by eight in the morning.

Watch a video of the process at: Time and Data

Full Moon Photo: Taken by me and shared at Flickr - Jalalspages

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Pluto captured in colour for the first time

Good news for the astronomers, sky gazers and hobbyists trying to probe the starry universe above. The New Horizons probe has captured its first image of Pluto - the distant dwarf planet.

The rather blurry and hazy picture which has been released by the US space agency NASA shows a reddish Pluto along with its biggest moon Charon.

It may be added that New Horizons is set to barrel past Pluto on 14th July this year. This significant event  will complete the reconnaissance of the "classical nine" planets of our Solar System.

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The universe - the fathomless frontiers beyond

Astronomy and sky gazing are hobbies that a large number of people adopt or love to adopt. Looking up to the sky in a dark night gives us a sky-scape consisting of trillions of tiny stars shinning above us. Almost all stars, even the nearest which we call our sun, are so far away away that one cannot never think of reaching out to them. The next star to the sun is 110 light years away - imagine the distance.

But while the powerful and the Almighty God created this unfathomable universe, He gave us knowledge - knowledge of science and astronomy to just have a 'feel' of his mighty empire He alone has the control over it. And the beauty is that the entire universe is moving in a set time frame so precisely calculated that no star and its planets get out of the respective orbits. And if that happens, the entire universe would collapse - perhaps that would be the Armageddon - or the doomsday.

The mention of the vastness of the universe and its timed movement appears in holy scriptures and books. God says in Quran: ''And He (is) The One Who created the night and the daytime, and the sun and the moon, each swimming in an orbit.''.......also God says : '' It does not behoove the sun to overtake the moon, nor does the night outstrip the daytime, and each is swimming in an orbit.'

I just came across a video on Facebook, prepared by the American Museum of Natural History, which shows the incredible God has created around us. When I saw the video, I just thought how very small or in fact tiny we are as compared to what else exists around us.

Watch the video - seeing is believing

THIS VIDEO WILL BLOW YOUR MIND
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Posted by Graffiti Kings on Thursday, July 24, 2014

This is only the part of the universe known to the man today - may be tomorrow and and the day afters man knows much more than he knows today - may be he finds people living out there we portray as aliens in our movies these days.

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